Cosmoline
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For the past ten years I've been buying and selling firearms. In total I've probably owned and operated several hundred. My goal has been to find the best ones for my own purposes, and as I've shot more I've come to focus more on those with the best balance and fit. Now I find myself in gun stores only looking for duplicates of what I've got now, so I think I may have reached some point of dharmic zen with my iron. Here's my basic outlay, which has stayed more-or-less intact for over a year:
--Colt Detective Special, second generation
--Ruger Speed Six in .357
--Ruger Bisley-Vaquero in .44 Magnum
--Mosin-Nagant M-91, Tikkakoski 1940
--CZ 452 zkm in .22LR
--Mossberg 500 shotgun with slugster barrel
--Norinco SKS "Paratroop" (still in trial period though)
plus some odds and ends such as the Nagant plinker, the Schmidt-Rubin and sometimes a semi or something
Not exactly a fancy arsenal. I'd take a picture of them but they're not flashy, and that may be one reason I've settled on them. They're all fairly workaday firearms. They all have good balance and extremely good reliability. I don't think any have seriously failed. All will point naturally for me, and none feel barrel heavy. All have good iron sights. I've pretty much dispensed with scopes because I've never been able to get used to them and find they don't really help me much.
Anyone else reach a personal zen state?
--Colt Detective Special, second generation
--Ruger Speed Six in .357
--Ruger Bisley-Vaquero in .44 Magnum
--Mosin-Nagant M-91, Tikkakoski 1940
--CZ 452 zkm in .22LR
--Mossberg 500 shotgun with slugster barrel
--Norinco SKS "Paratroop" (still in trial period though)
plus some odds and ends such as the Nagant plinker, the Schmidt-Rubin and sometimes a semi or something
Not exactly a fancy arsenal. I'd take a picture of them but they're not flashy, and that may be one reason I've settled on them. They're all fairly workaday firearms. They all have good balance and extremely good reliability. I don't think any have seriously failed. All will point naturally for me, and none feel barrel heavy. All have good iron sights. I've pretty much dispensed with scopes because I've never been able to get used to them and find they don't really help me much.
Anyone else reach a personal zen state?